Daniel Silver, Looking

Daniel Silver makes sculptures that have a relationship with the human body. He came to public prominence with his 2013 Artangel project DIG, in which he created an imagined archaeological site in a derelict cinema in London, filling it with fragmented and apparently eroded figures and heads. Throughout his career, he has made work in concrete, bronze, marble, stone, wood and – most recently – clay.

This book is a celebration of Silver’s work in clay, made between 2018 and 2022 for an exhibition at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket. It takes a close look at the work in the exhibition, and at Silver’s practice and process, with essays by Barry Schwabsky and Margrethe Troensegaard; and conversations between the artist and Mark Godfrey and Adam Philips. Ruth Clark’s photographs of the sculptures in the spaces of the Fruitmarket let us get close up to Daniel Silver: Looking, an exhibition about what it is to look, and about how looking can clear a space for us to understand ourselves as people in the world, in relation to how we look and how we live. 

This was a limited print run.

Authors: Fiona Bradley, Adam Phillips, Mark Godfrey, Barry Schwabsky, Daniel Silver, Margrethe Troensegaard

Published in 2022

Isbn: 9781908612632 

Dimensions: 245 x 290 mm 

152 pages